Technology

The U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that 870,000 workers filed for unemployment compensation last week, a slight increase from the week before and another sign that the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to impede the American economic recovery. Millions of workers remain unemployed in the United States, with the jobless rate …

The new Canon EOS C70 is its first Cinema EOS camera to include the company’s RF Mount, giving it access to the same range of lenses used by mirrorless cameras like the Canon EOS R5. Canon’s Cinema range tend to be beefy cameras designed to live on professional video shoots, …

Financial crime as a wider category of cybercrime continues to be one of the most potent of online threats, covering nefarious actives as diverse as fraud, money laundering and funding terrorism. Today, one of the startups that has been building data intelligence solutions to help combat that is announcing a …

Authorities in Nigeria say a gas tanker truck exploded Wednesday, killing at least 28 people, including school children and university students in the central state of Kogi.  Initial reports indicate the driver lost control of the truck carrying fuel when the brakes failed, causing the truck to overturn and explode, setting fire to …

The VPN provider SaferVPN has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in its software after a bug was discovered by a security researcher. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-25744, was first disclosed to the company at the beginning of September by a security researcher who goes by the handle mmht3t. …

VC and corporate investment into climate tech grew at a faster rate than overall VC investment as a whole between 2013-2019, according to a major new report — to the tune of $60 billion of early-stage capital. The new research by PwC (“The State of Climate Tech 2020“) found that …

The United States on Wednesday announced new sanctions against Cuba, aimed at further denying sources of revenue to the government in Havana.  U.S. President Donald Trump said the sanctions prohibit Americans from residing at Cuban government-owned properties and importing Cuban cigars and liquor.  Trump made the announcement at a White …

With all the high-resolution content coming out, getting one of the best 4K monitors is ever more vital. And, with desktop PCs coming with increasingly powerful components (Hello Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000!) to handle more visually demanding tasks, having a monitor that can keep up is necessary. The best monitors …

What’s driving the U.S. fintech boom? Last night Robinhood, the American fintech unicorn that provides free securities trading services to consumers via an app, announced that it raised an additional $460 million in its previously-known Series G. That round is now worth $660 million at an $11.7 billion post-money valuation. …

Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been discharged from the Berlin hospital where he was being treated for what Germany has said is a case of poisoning with a nerve agent from the Soviet-era Novichok group. The 44-year-old posted on social media a picture of himself sitting on a park bench …